Details taken from family bible. The Free BMD site has an entry for the September quarter 1903 for Samuel aged 7. Ref. Chester-le-Street 10A 273. No record in the cemetery registers for Chester-le-Street or Sacriston.

Copy Certificate issued 19 March 1987. Entry No. 75. Both parties resided at Nettlesworth. Samuel French, aged 26 described as a Labourer made his mark. His father Newcombe French described as Labourer. Mary aged 18 & her father William Wild described as Boat
Builder. Mary's birth certificate shows surname as Wilde.